Heat, Storm Damage Trigger NS to Cut Rail Service on Major Routes

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Train traffic between Rotterdam and the south of the Netherlands is at a standstill until at least Thursday evening. Cables were damaged due to a fire in a cable duct…

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The fire in a cable duct next to the tracks in Rotterdam-South has had more serious consequences than previously estimated. Railway infrastructure manager ProRail now expects that trains will not be able to run between Rotterdam and the south again until Thursday evening. This applies to both train traffic towards Breda, which normally runs on the high-speed line, and trains to Dordrecht.

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ProRail expects the disruption to last until tomorrow morning.

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Due to a power outage, no trains are running between Rotterdam and Dordrecht, nor between Rotterdam and Breda. According to NS, this means train traffic is not possible from Rotterdam to the south. Fewer trains are running on the route between Rotterdam and The Hague. NS expects this to last until just after midnight on the night of Monday to Tuesday.

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No trains will run between Breda and Rotterdam until at least Thursday evening. A fire broke out on Monday morning in a cable duct next to the tracks in Rotterdam-Zuid. The consequences are significant. "There are about 299 cables in the cable duct. A large portion of these have been damaged over a length of twenty meters," ProRail wrote on their website in the afternoon. The exact extent of the damage was not yet clear at that time. Early in th…